Proper Stock Market Analysis Can Make All The Difference To Your Profit Margin

The Nicholas Darvas Stock Market Analysis Story (part 30)

My stock market analysis seemed very easy on paper with no money at stake.
But as soon as I had $10,000 invested in a stock the picture became
quite different. With no money involved in my stock market analysis,
I could easily control my feelings, but as soon as I put dollars
into a stock my emotions came floating quickly came back to my stock
market analysis.

As my cables continued to arrive day after day, I slowly became accustomed to this new type of operation and started to feel more and more confident in my stock market analysis. Only one particular fact bothered me. Sometimes some of my stocks made inexplicable moves, which had no relation to their previous behavior.

This baffled me, and it was while I was looking through my stock market analysis for an explanation that I made a momentous discovery. I realized I was on my own. I was certain I could learn nothing more from books. No one could guide me. I was completely alone with my daily telegrams, my stock market analysis and my weekly issues of Barton's. They were my only contact with Wall Street, many thousands of miles away. If I wanted a stock market analysis, I could only turn to them.

So I plunged avidly into Barron's for a stock market analysis. I turned its pages until they turned to shreds before I finally discovered this: the inexplicable moves in my stocks usually coincided with some violent move in the general market. As I only received the quotes of my own stocks, I was completely disregarding the possible influence of the general market on them. This was no better than trying to direct a battle by only looking at one section of the battlefield.

This was a very important discovery for me and I immediately acted on this stock market analysis. I asked my broker to add to the end of my cables the closing price of the Dow-Jones Industrial Average. This I thought would give me a clear enough stock market analysis of how the general market behaved.

My telegrams now read like this:

"When I received the first cables with this added stock market analysis, I was like a child with a new toy. I thought I had discovered a completely new formula. As I tried to relate the Dow-Jones Industrial Average to the movements of my own stock market analysis, I reasoned that if the Average was going up, so would my stocks.

Soon after, I found out that this was not true. To try to fit the market into
a rigid pattern was a mistake. It seemed quite impossible to do
it. Each stock behaved differently. There was no such thing as a
mechanical pattern in stock
market analysis. I was wrong many times before I banished the
Average to its proper place. It was some time before I discovered
that the Dow-Jones Company publishes an average. It simply mirrors
the day to day behavior of 3 0 selected stocks. Other stocks are
influenced by it but do not mechanically follow its pattern. I also
began to appreciate that the Dow-Jones Company is not a fortune-telling
organization. It does not attempt to tell you when individual stocks
will rise or fall.

This
article is actually only a small snippet of Nicolas
Darvas' work..."Discover The
Original Method Of Nicolas Darvas... The Young Dancer
Turned Investor Who, Within 18 Months, Turned $25,000
Into $2,000,000"